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Last week I re-tweeted a blog post from Tom Peters, the best-selling business management guru. In Appreciation! “Tool” No.1 Tom shares his own growing appreciation for a quote by the American psychologist, William James who said, “The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” Tom goes on to talk about the…

Managers can be shy or unsure of themselves when it comes to recognizing and praising others at work. That’s some of the feedback we’ve been getting as people have been participating in our Catch People Doing Things Right Twitter contest (see details below). Part of the reason is that leaders are concerned that they won’t do it right—or…

Yesterday we kicked off a special year-end Twitter contest to help recognize people doing things right. Between now and Friday morning at 6:00 a.m. Pacific Time, we will be giving away copies of a personally autographed Ken Blanchard book to one lucky person each day from among the people nominated during the previous day. If you’d…

Join The Ken Blanchard Companies’ Mark Paskowitz for a live, online chat today at 10:05 a.m. Pacific Time. Paskowitz will be answering questions immediately after his webinar on Reward and Recognition on a Limited Budget. The webinar is free and is a part of The Ken Blanchard Companies monthly webinar series co-sponsored with Cisco WebEx.…

Congratulations to Patti Breckenridge of Tampa, Florida and Lee Wise of Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania who were announced yesterday as the winners in our Twitter contest to help identify today’s top leaders. Both Patti and Lee will be receiving a gift pack of 7 of Ken Blanchard’s best books, including best-sellers together with some of Ken’s newest…

Today is the last day of Ken Blanchard’s Top Leader survey/contest on Twitter. Over 2,000 people have viewed tweets, or posted nominations at http://www.twitter.com/kenblanchard. On this final day, the role of the leader as coach seems to be the aspect of leadership to highlight. In addition to inspirational, unsung, and visionary leaders, the leader as…

There have been a large number of nominations posted over the weekend for Ken Blanchard’s Top Leader Survey/Contest on Twitter. (Thanks to all of you who have nominated someone, or re-Tweeted the original post.) In looking over the latest group of nominees, one thought that came to mind was the inspirational side of leadership. Many…